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H. D. Thoreau Takes Olympic Post'
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
NO. 7
72
LOS ANGELES 7, CALIFORNIA
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Free India Festival Opens Tomorrow
MONDAY, JULY 16, 1956
U.S. Radio, Television Chief Speaks at Weekly Assembly
Teacher Conference Studies Handicapped
Educator Says
JCs Need Aid Of California
Problems of education and guidance of physically and mentally-handicapped children will be considered at a conference at SC tomorrow. Sponsors of the all-day meeting will be the Council of Research and Guidance Associations of Los Angeles County and the School of Education.
Henry Weitzel, director of research for Pasadena city schools and council chairman, will open
a general meeting at 10 a.m. in 229 Founders Hall.
Discussion Set
Trends, programs, problems, of research in special education will be discussed by Jane E. Beasley, Columbia University; Donald E. Kitch, California State Department of Education, and Mary Francis Martin, Los Angeles City Schools. Dr. Earl Carnes of the SC School of Education faculty will be moderator.
In the afternoon, the conference will be divided into group meetings on guidance of the multiple handicapped in special secondary schools, trade schools and universities.
Medical and mental hygiene problems, physical restoration services and job placement difficulties of the multiple handicapped will also be discussed.
Mentally Impaired
Education and guidance of cerebral palsied, mentally deficient and mentally retarded children will also be considered. Another group will take up problems of the gifted child as well as those handicapped visually, those with speech impairment and deaf children.
Dr. Elmer 1^. Wagner, professor and assistant dean of the SC School of Education- is conference chairman.
More financial aid and recognition for junior colleges was urged Friday at the annual school administration-supervision conference of the SC School of Education.
“The State should match funds for construction of junior colleges, which are educating more students at present than State colleges,” said Dr. Frank M. Wright of Sacramento, associate superintendent of public instruction. “Junior colleges at present are financed entirely by local district funds.”
“A bureau of junior college education should be established as a State agency,” Wright suggested, “to give these two-year colleges the recognition they deserve.
Special Instruction
“Special instruction should be given gifted children in the public schools,” Wright said. “They are about one per cent of the school population, but could be the scientists and engineers we need in the future,” he said. “We are doing more now for children at the other end of the scale.”
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Dunham To View T V Need
RADIO-TV HEAD—Dr. Franklin Dunham, chief of radio and television, U. S. Department of Education, will speak at tomorrow's assembly on the subject "Does television operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity?" The public lecture will be in 133 FH at 11 a.m.
Health Workshop Slates Luncheon
A luncheon will be held Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in the University commons dining rooms A and B in connection with the month-long School Health Education workshop being conducted on campus.
Those attending the morning workshop session will be guests of the workshop committee for lunch. Reservations for the luncheon and the discussion session can be made through Dr.
Wynn Fredericks, chairman of the department of health, physical education, and recreation, by calling Ext. 263.
All school administrators on campus are invited to hear the panel discussion on “Priority Problems in Health Education from the Point of View of the School Administrator,” at 9 a.m. in 133 FH, and attend the luncheon at 11:30.
‘‘Does television operate in the public interest, convenience, and necessity?" is one of several questions that will be answered at the assembly
Tuesday by Dr. Frank Dunham, chief of radio and television, U. S. Department of Education.
The assembly will begin at 11 a.m. in 133 FH. This phrase— public interest, convenience, and necessity—appeared in the first Federal Radio Act of 1926 and was inserted in the Federal Federal Communications Act o€ 1934. It is the basic principle on which the FCC bases its investigations and judgments.
Other Questions
Some of the other questions that Dr. Dunham will answer are, “Is the American system of broadcasting set up to bring the greatest public service to the | television audience?”
Are the television networks, now under investigation, pre^ j sen ting a good case in their own behalf?
Are children who view TV so
constantly being given good educational and recreational programs?
Is TV for the adult merely a matter of escape or does it have definite cultural values?
Will television be a principle I factor in electing the next president of the United States?
International Exchange
What are the chances for in-j ternational exchange of television programs?
Will television be a revolu-tionary or just an evolutionary factor in education?
Has television been a means of reducing reading, movie and playgoing, or even listening to 1 the radio?
Moscow-Peking Policies in Asia Be Explained at i R Forum
DR. RODGER SWEARINGEN
. . . tells Soviet policies
The Asian Policies of the Moscow-Peking Axis will be explained by two professors of the SC School of International Relations in a free public lecture Wednesday.
This will be the second in a series of seven weekly forums in 133 FH at 2:15 p.m. Dr. Rodger Swearingen will speak on Soviet policy, and Dr. Theodore H. E. Chen will discuss policies of the Chinese Communists.
Swearingen will tr«ce the development of Soviet policy in Asia since World War II com-
menting on the assumptions and objectives of the Soviet leaders.
He will also comment on how j the emergence of Peking as a new Communist center may effect the workings of Soviet foreign policy in Asia.
Chinese Policy
Chen will examine Chinese policy. especially in Asia, since the Chinese Peoples Party took over in 1949. He will discuss the significance of their new development, objectives, delimitations, and some of the methods used by the Chinese Communists in their operations in Asia.
Dr. Swearingen, co-author of “Red Flag in Japan,” directs a Ford Foundation research project at SC on the Russian impact on Japan. He is a graduate of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, and during World War II he served in the Far East as a language officer. Later he was with General MacArthur’s headquarters in Tokyo and the Department of State in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Chen is head of the Asiatic Studies department at SC, and recently completed a research project on Communist China for 1 the U.S. Air Force.
DR. THEODORE H. E. CHEN
. . . tells Red China policies